Context: Antiquity. Roman Empire.
Colony. Palestine. Puppet government.
Caesarea. Tiberias. Cities in honor of emperors.
Dispossessed farmers. Dislocated fisherfolk.
Taxes and more taxes. Debts and mounting debts.
Text: The Gospels. Fishing all night. No catch.
Tending nets. No catch. Parables of Workers and Tenants in Vineyards.
Daily wages. Subsistence pay. No work.
Dispossessed farmers. Dislocated fisherfolk.
The Gospels: Thousands fed with bread and fish. A child offers five loaves and two fish.
A ritual of bread and fish. Taking sides with farmers and fisherfolk.
Then and now: Taking sides with those who need God the most.
Taking sides with those whose only hope is God.
Taking sides with farmers and fisherfolk.
Reading the Bible inside a Jeepney: Celebrating Colonized Peoples' capacity to beat swords into ploughshares, to transform weapons of mass destruction into instruments of mass celebration: mortar shells into church bells, teargas canisters to flower pots, rifle barrels into flutes... U.S. Army Jeeps into Public Utility Jeepneys.